Week Two (Or 'Week One' who call the first week of school 'Week Zero') has given me the opportunity to take a step back and organize myself. This week's challenge lies in organizing just what needs to be done when. While I have, in past semesters, been fortunate enough to have professors whose due dates correspond, this semester every class has a different date for items to be due. I've found that adjusting from one semester to another can take about a week and this semester is no different, except for the internship.
Our site supervisor provided us with a rough estimate of when she wanted us to complete our transcriptions so there is no predetermined schedule and as a result, I have to make one on my own. In line with the internship class, I've decided to set Sunday as my personal completion (or at least landmark) date. The two interviews I've been assigned are just under an hour each. The first, fifteen minute long interview took a final total of two and a half hours including the time it took for me to review my word choices and check for errors and remove my own personal markings in the document for final submission.
While my current system of noting my start and end times on my planner is effective in logging my time spent on internship tasks, if we're supposed to be submitting our time logs I will have to consolidate this information into some sort of document. I'd discussed this briefly with my supervisor at our first interview in December, but it hasn't come up since. However, I will have to remember to ask her the next time we meet.
I'm always concerned about the way I assign work as well. The first week is short so that we can get on a Monday to Sunday night schedule. It seemed to me that students needed the weekend to complete work assigned earlier. I can understand the challenges you face with all of these different deadlines to juggle. The transcription task is time consuming. I have personal experience with that and understand why 15 minutes might take you 2.5 hours.
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